Tales From Earthsea

I’m going along to watch Gedo senki on Friday, a japanese animation based on the novels by Ursula Le Guin. The film is directed by Goro Miyazaki – son of Hayao Miyazaki, whose work I really like. Anything that you can watch that is basically like getting a big hug has to be good.

I think there is a little controversy around the studio trying to market the film based on the Miyazaki name, despite Hayao Miyazaki having nothing to do with the project. I have no idea what it will be like (guessing a little rough around the edges), but I have some vague, happy memory of reading the books when I was young.

The last book I read was Administrators Guide to SQL Server 2005, the fattest book I’ve ever purchased. Books aren’t really magical anymore. Although the chapter about hard drives, spindles and distributing IO load came close.